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I’ve been taking the CR during the red line shut down and…wow the Quincy center CR station does not impress. Dark, dank, very univiting. Would it kill them to add some lighting? Edit: I feel obliged to add that the riding experience was superior to the red line in every way.

What's your point? Demand for the cheapest housing rose during a recession, why wouldn't it? What is even the relevance of this entire sidebar to the thread?

K-12 enrollment is plummeting and state funding is tied to enrollment. Districts are begging for kids. We already covered this. This thread is about a policy designed to lower housing costs. It's not about net migration to/from MA (which, as I'd hope you know, continues to be only in the low...

I suppose you're looking to say that me believing sprawl is worth fighting makes me hypocritical here? Let's look at Sudbury at the time: and compare that to the Sudbury of today If the farms want to sell to developers to build homes, making that illegal would seem to conflict with a...

Trees getting cleared out at the corner of Centre and Intervale. 345 units slated to go up. The derelict blue home in the background as well of the other small structure will be demolished as well.

Ok, but...I'm not. Do I need to go through town by town and explain it in 173 different ways? Something only becomes a regional issue because it is impacting a significant number of localities. That doesn't suddenly mean it's no longer happening at the local level, in fact just the opposite...

Will do my best to correspond paragraph by paragraph here: The evidence thus far does not bear this out. Nor is your point about number of bedrooms/occupants very convincing. Developers are going to build what the market will bear. Anything bigger than 4 bedrooms is already a rarity. Almost...

Oh wild I had no idea that college grads weren't going to move to a municipality that has a share of adults with a degree 13.4 percentage points higher than the state as a whole. Oversimplifying how the market works isn't proving your point, it's putting your own ignorance on display. Sure, very...

No, I'm saying that the character of individual towns has changed over the past couple decades and continues to do so because of the status quo of zoning. Though I agree with and appreciate your observation that this is a region-wide phenomena. The tea analogy would be more appropriate if it...

Passing by Quincy Adams this morning and saw new trains stopped at the station in each direction at the same time! What a world.

In addition to the space issues mentioned above, first responders made a physical barrier on Columbus a non-starter. I’d be shocked if they had suddenly changed their view on that in the interim.

You’re either ignorant of the law or arguing in bad faith. This isn’t a town signing up to add 10% of its population in dependent refugees. It’s a zoning change that may lead to a gradual increase in the towns population. During this gradual build up the town gets to reap higher property tax...

I’m sure they do, I’m just begging them to articulate it. Of course I’m going to dismiss out of hand something that is demonstrably false. 2+2 does not equal 5. Dense housing does not put more strain on municipal finances than detached single family.

You know as well as I do, and as every municipal official dating back to the 50s did, that single family sprawl is a much more massive strain on public services and utilities. Dense urbanism can actually bear its own costs, and help the town in its subsidy of single family neighborhoods. As for...

What issues?

No doubt! But if this is something the MBTA/city wants to do, then start that process. It’s going to be cheaper in the long run to fold the extension in as a..well, extension, of the Huntington rebuild.

Im thrilled that this is at least on their radar but hate that such a layup is “yeah we’ll start really thinking about it in a few years”

Absolutely agreed in principle, though I don’t think it can be solely carrot any more than it can be solely stick. There are plenty of communities who would view these carrots as nothing of the sort. Increased frequency means more opportunity for Those People to come into our quiet suburb and Do...

Oh come on, this is some college freshman level analysis. At every step of the way you’ve failed to ask “why is that” and are just reacting to outcomes.

The belief in the non-existent right to have your town/neighborhood locked in amber at the exact moment you personally bought a home there is so bafflingly widespread.